Watch here at about 42 minutes. Have Richard Curtis and Comic Relief not noticed tax justice campaigns? Extraordinary.
It’s time to tax wealth, and land in particular
As the Guardian reported yesterday: Official figures showed that the UK’s net worth rose by £492bn between 2016 and 2017 to £10.2tn, with the lion’s share
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The time has come to nationalise auditing
The problems within auditing in the UK (and I strongly suspect elsewhere) were highlighted yesterday when the fifth largest U.K. firm, Grant Thornton, was fined
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Finding the passion in life
I will be one of hundreds of thousands of parents with a new sixth former this coming term. This morning we meet his new college to
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Normal times
Officially I am on holiday this week. I don’t rate my chances of getting much time off. There is too much I want to do.
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Democratic socialism is the best thing that could ever happen for the market economy
I was asked recently to comment on a suggestion made to a friend of mine by a friend of theirs that socialism would always and
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Climate change is real. We must not offer credibility to those who deny it
The following letter was published in The Guardian last night under the heading: If ‘balance’ means giving voice to those who deny the reality of human-triggered
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Farewell Wonga: now bring back a social fund
Sixteen years ago the Debt on the Doorstep campaign began to tackle extortionate costs imposed by non-bank lenders in the UK market. As the campaigners for this noted
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